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AXA executives held a conference call with securities analysts earlier this week to talk about the company’s plans to buy XL Group, a reinsurer, for $15.3 billion.

Some of the analysts asked Thomas Buberl, AXA’s chief executive officer, and other AXA executives about AXA’s plans to sell stock in AXA Equitable to the public, through an initial public offering (IPO).

That deal raises the possibility that Equitable, which is based in New York, was once one of the dominant players in the U.S. life insurance market, could get more independence from its corporate parent.

Allison Bell

Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at abell@alm.com or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.

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